In the chess world people play chess, meet each other and, of course, some of them fall in love and get married. It will be wonderful to have an organizer who would be interested to hold an annual tournaments between chess families.
Here are the top 10 chess couples base on the FIDE rating on April 1, 2009.
| Husband | Elo | Wife | Elo | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grischuk A. | 2748 | Zhukova | 2461 | 2604.5 |
| Fressinet | 2664 | Skripchenko | 2449 | 2556.5 |
| Fridman D. | 2646 | Zatonskih | 2461 | 2553.5 |
| Socko B | 2637 | Socko M | 2456 | 2546.5 |
| Al-Modhiak | 2585 | Zhu Chen | 2491 | 2538 |
| Peng Xiaomin | 2588 | Qin Kanying | 2466 | 2527 |
| Atalik Suat | 2607 | Atalik E. | 2434 | 2520.5 |
| Zhang Zhong | 2613 | Li Ruofan | 2423 | 2518 |
| Fontaine | 2546 | Lahno | 2478 | 2512 |
| Bellon | 2439 | Cramling | 2528 | 2483.5 |
Nice blog very cute, i am starting play chess and are wondefull I never tought many couples bewten players of chess. Keep goin, greetings...
ReplyDeleteOmg, Alexandra, "great minds think alike" :-)
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We've just prepared an article on almost the same topic!
It's good that at least in 1 couple it's the woman who is stronger, good for Cramling!
ReplyDeleteFunny almost all couples are with players from different countries. That shows chess brings together people.
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